By ABDULKADIR KHALIF A large contingent of Ethiopian troops has crossed into Somalia, reports from Gedo region indicated Wednesday. Eyewitnesses in Dolo town, 450 kilometres southwest of Mogadishu, told the media that the troops proceeded to Luq, about 100 kilometres away. “A force about 3,000-strong armed with heavy weaponry crossed the border into Somalia and
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By Ingrid Formanek and Omar Nor Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility Tuesday for a nighttime attack on two homes in northeastern Kenya’s Mandera County. The attack killed at least 14 people and injured 11 others, according to Mandera County Commissioner Alex Nkoyo. The compound housed primarily quarry workers. The attack began around 1 a.m. when
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Two decades after “Black Hawk Down,” U.S. special operations forces are back in East Africa’s most troubled nation. FP provides a rare window into their shadowy operations. BY TY MCCORMICK KISMAYO, Somalia — Some say the Americans are everywhere. Some say they are nowhere. Still others say they are everywhere and nowhere at once. But
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The UAE ambassador survived as he was in a bulletproof vehicle A military vehicle escorting a United Arab Emirates’ diplomatic convoy was hit by a car bomb in Somalia’s capital, killing at least 12 people, police say. The UAE ambassador survived the suicide attack as he was riding in a bullet-proof land cruiser vehicle, the
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By Drazen Jorgic DADAAB, Kenya (Reuters) – When Kenyan police arrested six men in the vast Dadaab refugee camp near the Somali border last April, their ultimate aim was to dismantle a decades-old sugar smuggling trade that is funding Somali militants waging war on Kenya. The arrests, coming weeks after four al Shabaab gunmen massacred
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By Mwaura Samora NAIROBI: The recent attack on Garissa University College, where more than 150 lives were cut short by Al-Shabaab bullets, has evoked anger among Kenyans. This and other bloody attacks in Mandera, Lamu and Nairobi have triggered numerous debates, drawing parallels between Kenya and Ethiopia in the war against terrorism. Despite Ethiopia
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Kenyan police on campus in Garissa The BBC’s Bashkash Jugsooda’ay in Garissa described hearing gunfire Gunmen from the militant Islamist group al-Shabab have killed at least 15 people and taken students hostage at a university in north-eastern Kenya. Reports say 65 others were wounded when gunmen stormed a university in Garissa. Troops are engaging the
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Somalia militant group al-Shabaab has executed a young man accused of spying for the Ethiopian troops in the country. The man, named Ali Salad Majin, 20, was shot dead in an open public view in firing in a Southern Somalia town, while residents of the district were invited to watch the event as it unfolds.
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(BBC) Al-Shabab militants have been driven out of the group’s strongholds in Somalia The US defence department has confirmed that it has killed an al-Shabab leader, Adan Garar. The Pentagon says the militant was hit by a drone equipped with Hellfire missiles in southern Somalia last Friday. Garar was a suspect in the 2013 Westgate
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Al-Shabab has said it will target government officials Some 20 people, including senior officials, have been killed in an attack on a hotel in the Somali capital, witnesses have told the BBC. The Central Hotel, often frequented by politicians, was hit by a car bomb and a suicide attack. Gunmen then stormed the hotel mosque
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